The United Nations Climate Change Conference, Durban 2011, delivered a breakthrough on the international
community's response to climate change. In the second largest meeting of its kind, the negotiations advanced,
in a balanced fashion, the implementation of the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol, the Bali
Action Plan, and the Cancun
Agreements. The outcomes included a decision by Parties to adopt a universal legal agreement on climate change
as soon as possible, and no later than 2015. The President of COP17/CMP7 Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said: "What we
have achieved in Durban will play a central role in saving tomorrow, today."